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Weather: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 80s. Monday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Joint Veterans Day Ceremony and Parade: The Flagler County Board of County Commissioners, the City of Bunnell, and the City of Palm Coast invite residents to gather for a blended Veterans Day Ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, November 11, at the historic Coquina City Hall in Bunnell. The day’s events will kick off with the 2nd Annual Veterans Parade to honor the men and women who bravely served in the country’s military. The parade will travel east on Moody Boulevard and conclude at the Government Services Building where the traditional ceremony will begin. Retired U.S. Naval Captain James Randall “Randy” Stapleford – a career naval aviator who served from 1972 to 2003 – will be the grand marshal of the parade and will share a few words at the ceremony.
Notably: Do Americans read? Hardly, and decreasingly so, according to Gallup. From a 2022 report: “Americans say they read an average of 12.6 books during the past year, a smaller number than Gallup has measured in any prior survey dating back to 1990. U.S. adults are reading roughly two or three fewer books per year than they did between 2001 and 2016.” That 12.6 books tally is deceptive. The voracious readers skew it. 57 percent of Americans either read no books at all or read one to five a year, and Gallup measures a book read as including those partly read, the unfinished, the leafed through. Only 27 percent of Americans read 11 books or more, and that proportion is at its lowest since 1990. “The reasons for the decline in book reading are unclear, with Americans perhaps finding other ways to entertain themselves,” Gallup finds. Compare that to the graphic above. The French have us beaten by reams, even if a quarter of them still don’t read at all.
—P.T.
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, its obsessions, its beliefs; with whatever it finds moving, interesting, exciting, or repugnant. Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave—a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you’d have in conversation with a friend. Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak so openly as when we face a blank page and address an unknown reader. The beauty of an author’s style, the music of his sentences, have their importance in literature, of course; the depth of an author’s reflections, the originality of his thought, certainly can’t be overlooked; but an author is above all a human being, present in his books, and whether he writes very well or very badly hardly matters—as long as he gets the books written and is, indeed, present in them.
–From Michel Houellebecq’s Submission (2018).
Pogo says
@Arriving 01/20/2025, the last weather report…
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
― George Orwell, 1984
RK says
TIME FOR EUROPE TO PAY THERE FAIR SHARE FOR DEFENSE.
Palm Coast Vet says
How much is your child worth to you?
Sit back and watch China, Iran and Russia do what they want.
Their far away from Palm Coast, for now.
You are sad.
Skibum says
Just wondering, what exactly is their “fair share” when a man with Trump’s own history of bellying up to and fawning over some of the world’s most despicable tyrants is about to take control once again. He called Kim Jong Un his friend, he completely dismisses Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and believes all of the lies and deceptions coming from Putin’s mouth. Many of the world’s leaders don’t know if America is their ally any more, or will sit back with disinterest and watch their countries be taken over and destroyed with Trump in the WH. We are in a very dangerous time when an American president pushes allies away while building up the egos of murderous, tyrannical dictators who Trump is so jealous of because he wants to become one himself.